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This blog contains articles related to the practicalities around application software development. How should source code control be used? When should secure engineering be employed? How can teams maintain software for their sucessors to own?

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Today's keynote speaker at the Innovate 2012 conference was Michio Kaku . Dr. Kaku gave a whirlwind tour of the latest in physics-related breakthroughs, from contact lenses for augmented reality to smart wallpaper which will offer dining suggestions and medical advice, to medical devices which are ingested to assist in accurate diagnosis of medical issues. Dr. Kaku was quick to point out that all of these innovations to come in the world are powered by the software necessary to bring the hardware to life, bring information to people, and make... [More]

Software development teams that want to work well, spend more time coding new function and less time answering those age old questions "So, are you on time? In budget? On schedule?" are always looking for ways to make reporting something that they don't have to spend time on. Building reports whenever someone asks for status just wastes the development team's time. Well, maybe not wastes time, but it does take away from their ability to focus on the tasks that they're being asked to do, namely, design new solutions, write code,... [More]